Why is it that when you’re comforting a crying child in the night, you’ve rubbed their back and they are well on their way to sleep again, you sneak out, climb back into your own bed, get all settled in, and then they realize you are gone and decide to resume the crying? Maybe this […]

Today was a marathon sewing day. I was making another Mei Tai for my mom to give as a baby gift, and it needed to get done asap. Whew. It’s finished. I made Sterling and Pierce matching little black belts while the machine was still out, washed seven loads of laundry, and worked on potty […]

Recipes we’ve enjoyed lately, complete with commentary:   Oatmeal Beer Bread 2 cups flour 1 1/4 cups oatmeal 1 T baking powder 1 tsp. salt 2 T brown sugar 2 T honey 12 oz. beer 1/4 cup melted butter Grease loaf pan. In a bowl, mix dry ingredients, pour honey over dry ingredients, then beer […]

Yesterday, I posted an ad on Craigslist to sell our goats. After holding onto them long past needing them, it was time. I’m stretched thin with too many things to do and not enough time to get it all done, and milking goats was not real high on my list of things I wanted to […]

They make these contraptions called binkies. They can be there when I’m not available. You know. Like All. Night. Long. You should try it sometime. One night soon, you’ll be on your own. That new habit of grunting at me to roll over every two hours so you can get a fresh supply? It’s not […]

When your dear daughter, age eight, finds the recipe for the 9×13 pan of bars she’s been asked to make and she asks if she should make a double or triple batch and acts surprised when informed a single will be plenty… is that when you know your family is approaching the big side of […]

Scene 1: Took Charlotte’s night diaper off of her this morning. Told her she had to go in the toilet today. Took her potty. Over. And over. And over. Nothing. No accidents, but no successes. Nap diaper: soaked. Over. And over. No successes. Find her in her bedroom piling every clothing article on her puddle. […]

We’ve had quite the week around this little farm. One day last week, right after the raccoon incident, the goats got out. Since they are, umm, goats, that was no shocker. Upon chasing them back in and heading up to do chores, Blaine found a bloody mess. They’d ran through the barbed wire outside of […]